Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

cmiller-38 The old man and the sea is a film that seemed to portray a man's meaning for existence. The old man has not caught a fish for 84 days but stubbornly persists in his occupation. What other job could he do? Work gives him purpose. He does not want to go to the city and lay about listening to baseball, even though that is his favorite thing to think about. It is his struggle to be seen as strong and successful as he was in the past. He is trying to live up to his former glory. The other fishermen despise him for it and his daughter criticizes him for it as well. The only one who believes in him is his boy helper whom he seemed to mentor since he was five. The old man should retire in glory after battling a monster marlin for two days with little water and food, getting knocked about with head injuries,getting cut, and also fending off sharks from his fish. It should have ended with him collapsing on the beach not to get up again. He won the biggest arm wrestling match ever. The young couple are drawn to this old man and have to see if this old fisherman can overcome his days of despair. He did and that was something to write about.

denashiam Warning some spoilers below!!!!I've read the book, The Old Man and the Sea, and the movie wasn't exactly the same as the book, but the movie was very similar. The old man and the Sea is a classic book and many of you may have read it. The movie did cover almost every detail the book had, but it added its own touch to the movie. For one, the old man didn't have a daughter in the story or was the family even mentioned. The actress who played the daughter wasn't a very good actress. She didn't even add anything to the outline of the story. There was no point in her being in the movie at all. The old man and the sea movie wasn't a movie I would go out to see in the movie theater. It was port of an assignment in my reading class, but overall it was okay. The actor who played the old man did an excellent job in portraying the man and his adventures. To me, the story was kind of better in the sense of length because it really stressed the situations. The movie made it seem as if everything happened in a matter of 2 days, but the book made it seem as if the adventures lasted maybe a week. The part where he's catching the marlin tool like 5 minutes and the book said that it took days for him to catch the fish. The book and the story were good and if you like educational movies; this is the one for you. But, if you are like me don't watch it unless you have to. I rate the movie a 7 out of 10 because it was okay, but it wasn't all that.

chanel_cranford I saw the movie The Old Man and the Sea in school after my class read the book. I did not really like the movie because some of the actors couldn't act at all. For example, the woman that played Angela was a bad actress that made the movie look even worse than it already was. The woman Angela also looked a lot like a man instead of a woman. The movie was very different from the book because the movie was way shorter. In the book the old man Santiago didn't have a daughter but in the movie he did. Ernest Hemingway was not mentioned in the book as an actor. In the story it was sad when Santiago arrived back on land and he went to his shack; the boy come to the shack to see if he had arrived back home. But then again in the movie Santiago arrived in his boat with the fish tied to the side and people were gathering around and telling him what a magnificent fish he caught. The islanders then said that all of his bad luck was gone because he had caught such a fish in the 85th day. During the movie parts were missing that should have been there. That just made me not like the movie that much more. The new parts added to the movie didn't add to the meaning of the story because it had kind of the same meaning even without the new parts. In a way the movie kind of helped me understand the book a little better because I got to really get a good picture of all the surroundings and the feel of the book. For some parts of the book that was hard for me to picture in my head I was able to understand what the book was trying to explain and make me see.

Gtbhai13 CAUTION: This is a spoiler warning do not read this if you did not see the movie!!I really did not like the movie because it was not really reliable to the story. We read the story just before we saw the movie. It left out a lot of things for example, in the book the old man dreamed about lions and now he is dreaming about his wedding and his childhood. Also, in the book there is nothing about his daughter and in the movie there is a girl who is his daughter. The movie not also good because the Santiago did not have the Cuban accent it was to white of an accent. In the book a lot of things happen and the person who produced the movie left almost everything out. Then when my class and I were watching the movie I almost fell asleep because it was so boring. Then the teacher told us we had to vote at IMDb.com I rated it a 1 because it was not good to me. You might object to my opinion but if you have another one you should post it on the web sit and I would read it. I would not have watched it but since it was at school I had no other choice but to watch it. Some of my classmates did not like the movie and I think they did not like it for the same reason I did not like it for. I think the director just put the movie in his own words because some of the things like I said did not even fit in to the book so if you only saw the movie and then read the book you might think the book is not reliable to the movie and if you read the book and then saw the movie you might think differently.